New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has tapped Whitney Snider, MD, as managing partner of the cancer center’s investment pool, MSK Ventures. MSK Ventures aims to “accelerate investment in and development of breakthrough oncology innovations and inventions,” according…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
More than half of head and neck cancer clinical trials ended due to either sponsor-driven strategic decisions or poor recruitment, according to a study published Jan. 2 in JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery. Researchers from Miami-based Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer…
Out of 11 cancer hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had the highest percentage of patients who said they would probably or definitely recommend the hospital, according to CMS data published Nov.…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has begun construction on a cancer center in Modesto, Calif. The Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex will cost an estimated $380 million and is part of the health system’s larger multiyear expansion plan in the…
Kentucky, Mississippi and West Virginia had the highest overall cancer incidence and mortality rates in the U.S. between 2018 and 2023, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. New Mexico, Utah and Hawaii had the lowest overall cancer…
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Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital Cancer Institute has renamed its adolescent and young adult cancer program after receiving a $1 million donation. The Richard and Melanie Gonzmart Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Program is led by medical oncologist Victoria Rizk, MD,…
Investigators from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed — and made public — a free resource to inform potential immune system responses of pancreatic cancer patients after receiving various combinations of vaccines and immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs. The…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has completed an expansion on the Novant Health Cancer Institute in Thomasville, N.C. The expansion doubled exam room capacity to 12 and added three infusion chairs, according to a Jan. 12 news release from the health…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center hematologists have developed guidelines for implementing outpatient immunotherapy treatment of CAR-T and bispecific antibodies. The guidelines were published Dec. 4 in JCO Oncology Practice. BsAb and CAR-T elicit strong immune responses and “typically require inpatient…
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has recommended a multidisciplinary and individualized approach to cancer care during pregnancy, according to guidelines published Dec. 11 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Here are five notes from the guidelines: Read the full…